If you don’t think that Nike is the best brand when it comes to athletic gear, then you can at least agree that it’s in the top three. The mega brand has tapped world-renowned photographer Annie Leibovitz for its newest advertising campaign for its newest Legend Pant. Runners Allyson Felix and Perri Shakes-Drayton are featured…
Last month, we featured Oroma Elewa in our Closet Crush feature. Oroma is the founder and director of Pop’ Africana, a high-fashion magazine looking to enlighten the world on the beauty of African culture and style. We have also frequently featured Vogue Italia’s all-black spreads, which are working to promote diversity in the fashion world….
Dame Vivienne Westwood is the veritable queen of British fashion. Her career has spanned from 1970′s punk to modern day and through it all, she has remained authentic and true to her own eclectic sense of style. She is a design powerhouse worldwide and the industry looks to her to create unique and powerful collections…
Father’s Day is this Sunday and I’m not sure why, but buying for fathers and grandfathers is always so difficult. Men generally claim to be less picky when it comes to gifts, but they in fact have such a limited selection of things that they love, other than a home-cooked meal or tickets to a…
Latina models are taking the fashion industry by storm and are representing well for women of color. They come in all shades from Caroline Trentini to Rose Cordero and are slowly adding the diversity that the industry is lacking. V Spain is highlighting nine of the world’s top Latina models in its Summer 2011 issue….
Natural hair is a huge discussion happening in the black community as well as on our site. Our pieces featuring natural hair and the controversy surrounding it always elicit not only the most responses, but the most fervent responses of anything that we feature. The New York Times is catching on to the importance of…
Last night, London was ablaze with a host of powerful women from all around the globe. The 2011 Glamour Women of the Year Awards was held at Berkeley Square Gardens. Celebrities like Keri Hilson, Jameela Jamil and more were in attendance and there were also three women of color who won big at the awards:…
Though not a mainstream star, Sophie Okonedo is one of Hollywood’s most decorated actresses both domestically and internationally. Her life is a veritable melting pot: a London native, her father from Nigeria and her mother an Ashkenazi Jew. That unique mixture of cultures came together in Sophie and are just some of the many reasons…
Next to diversity, weight is one of fashion’s most serious issues. There is always talk of models being too thin or the most recent embrace of curvy models, but celebrity stylist Kithe Brewster is bringing awareness of obesity and overall health. Kithe has been responsible for making some of our favorite celebrities look fabulous including…
Josephine Baker will always be remembered as one of the world’s great beauties, fashion superstars and natural talents. Today would have been her 105th birthday so we decided to look back on her great accomplishments. Josephine was born in St. Louis, the adopted granddaughter of former slaves. After frequent abuse from the women she worked…
